Report of Unidentified Flying Object — Lemoore, California, 3 December 1967

This document consists of a Naval Speedletter dated December 14, 1967, from the U.S. Naval Air Station in Lemoore, California, forwarding two reports of an Unidentified Flying Object sighting that occurred on December 3, 1967. The reports were submitted by two civilian witnesses, a 37-year-old self-employed businessman and a 62-year-old farm laborer. Both witnesses described observing a bright white light that appeared to be the size of a pea, moving from the southwest to the northeast. The duration of the observation was reported as between 5 and 15 minutes. The witnesses noted that the object's speed was not constant, appearing to start and stop, and that it eventually stopped and remained stationary. The official conclusion reached by the investigating officer, Operations Duty Officer R. L. Coulson, was that the object was a 'Probable Satellite (ECHO I).' Coulson further suggested that the perceived movement of the object might have been an optical illusion caused by the fixation of the eye on a single point of light, or alternatively, that the object could have been a weather balloon. The report confirms that Vandenburg AFB reported no UFOs on radar and that there was no air traffic in the vicinity of Lemoore at the time of the incident. The document includes standard descriptive data forms for the sightings, weather conditions, and administrative routing information.